9 Secret Video Game Areas You Weren't Meant To Find (Commenter's Edition)

3. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne - Driver

One of the best secret levels of all time - mainly because WhatCulture HQ is based around here - Driver on PS1's features a secret model of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

Based on the iconic North-East city - and props to LostMyGate for suggesting this - you could only access "the Toon" by using cheat codes on PC, or a GameShark/Xploder cheat cartridge, on console.

Once you were in though, Reflections had modelled a fair bit of the city, complete with what's known as the Tyne Bridge, parts of the waterfront Quayside, the red swing bridge, and even a "City of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne" sign.

Driver 3 pretty much killed this series stone dead, but if it ever came back, how about developer Reflections - now owned by Ubisoft - do us a solid and render what's known as the "friendliest city in the UK", in full?

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Gaming Editor
Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.